Outdoors
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A blog post I wrote originally for ridgeruners.com, republished here In what already feels like another lifetime, I was once a very serious nonfiction writer. This was, much like ultrarunning, something I learned to do to process and understand a childhood in an abusive home, cyclical Appalachian poverty, and why everybody in my kindergarten class called me the little
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My first published essay, originally appearing in Entropy Mag in 2018. In the basement of my grandparents’ rural Ohio home, back when it was still their home, a dall ram was mounted on the wall opposite the couch in the basement living room. Dall sheep only live in the northwestern portions of Canada and in